Hotelito Azul Tulum

Floor-to-ceiling glass doors face the Caribbean in every room, which is the whole point of this small, casual beach hotel near Tulum. The renovation that added them transformed what was once an unremarkable property into somewhere you'll spend most of your time staring at the water, which is fine because staring at the water is exactly what you came for. Thirty-one rooms, two sun terraces, a hammock or two, and a pretty stretch of beach round out the offer.

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